VP of Systems Engineering - Canada

About the role

Bankjoy, a FinTech startup focused on digital banking for community banks and credit unions, is looking for a VP of Systems Engineering to own Release Management, Quality Engineering and DevOps. This is a hands-on leadership role at a key inflection point in the company's growth, reporting to the VP of Engineering and participating with senior leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Lead Release Management, Quality Engineering and DevOps, and set quality standards for QA engineers embedded across engineering value streams.
• Build the engineering quality framework, including unit, integration, API, automated regression and end-to-end testing, and a multi-platform automation strategy for Angular.NET, Swift iOS and Kotlin Android apps.
• Define quality gates and release readiness criteria, develop and coach the QA team, and embed quality in Agile development.
• Build quality dashboards showing automation coverage, defect trends, test reliability and release readiness.
• Work with Release Management on release gates and go/no-go decisions, partner with Technical Support on production issues, and run post-release retrospectives.
• Lead DevOps strategy for the Microsoft .NET and Azure cloud-native platform, including AKS, Helm, Azure DevOps CI/CD, observability, SRE practices and security and compliance.
• Drive AI-assisted coding and testing adoption across teams.

Required profile

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 4 years in engineering leadership of QA, DevOps, platform engineering, release engineering, SRE or related functions.
• Deep quality engineering background, having built or rebuilt automation frameworks and driven a move from manual-heavy to automation-first quality.
• Proven experience with release gates, release automation, and hands-on work with .NET, Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), Helm and CI/CD.
• Strong cross-functional credibility and excellent communication and organizational influence.

Required skills

• Microsoft .NET and Azure, including AKS and Helm
• CI/CD and release automation, preferably Azure DevOps pipelines
• Modern automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Appium or Maestro
• Agile development practices
• Nice to have: Angular, Swift, Kotlin, Terraform, SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, DORA metrics

What we offer

• Competitive compensation and stock options at a well-funded startup
• Medical, dental and vision coverage (100% for individuals on the base plan in the USA, and for you and your family in Canada)
• Retirement plan with 4% company matching
• 8 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents, 4 weeks for non-birthing, 3-5 weeks PTO and 15 holidays
• Remote-first culture